Re: Thanks and a question
From: "Howard S. Ostrowsky" <shermo@sb.grci.com>
> It turns out that my problem was due to the fact that I had
> LD_PRELOAD set to libgnumalloc.so.5, which is apparently no
> longer needed with libc6. But my question is this: I had
> added this environment variable long ago because it was needed
> by some program (I can't recall which one!). But I have no idea
> what LD_PRELOAD is really for.
This was a hack to switch to using a different memory allocator because
Netscape had some buffer overrun problems. LD_PRELOAD caused
libgnumalloc.so.5 to be loaded before the C library.
Bruce
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